[Mageia-dev] GRUB can't see HD from chroot unless parent /dev is bind-mounted in chroot ?

Wed Jan 16 17:30:27 CET 2013

On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 16:24 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+
+> Personally I've been bind mounting /dev, /proc and /sys for years
+> whenever doing any rescuecd etc. stuff. Partly because I have several
+> LVM volumes where a static /dev/ wouldn't help anyway...
+> 
+> But bind mounting /dev has just been part of my chroot routine for as
+> long as I remember.
+
+Knowing about this would have saved me several days after trying to
+install the mageia beta (I now have it running with the
+3.6.5-tmb-desktop-3.mga3 kernel as the 3.8 one is broken without a fix
+to the recursive panic problem, which is fixed upstream). It's not
+obvious to people who don't do it often :-)
+
+Why not add a command to the rescue disk,
+bind-mount dir - mount /dev, /proc and /sys as /dir/dev etc for chroot
+
+Liam
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